sr software engineer, cloud data edi etl mobile ai / ml devops web

STEVEN C. HOWES

HOWES-IT-GOING

Email:

*****.**.*****@*****.***

Phone in USA / Germany:

+1-314-***-****

+49-160-***-****

Websites:

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OVERVIEW

AI / ML, LLMs, Vectors, RPA,

Analysis, APIs, Automations,

CI / CD Pipelines, Build, Test,

Deploy, Reverse Engineering,

Git, GitHub, GitLab, SVN,

IDEs, Visual Studio, VSCode,

Eclipse, PyCharm, Xcode

Graphics, Images, Charts

Databases, EDI, ETL, SQL

iOS, MAC, Linux, Unix, C, .sh

Windows, .DOS, .CMD, .VBS

LAMP, WAMP, MEAN, MERN

Mobile Apps, Android, iPhone

E-Commerce, Shopping Cart,

Payment Gateways, Instant

Merchants, ACH, PCI, Credit

& Debit Cards, Kiosks / ATMs

Jira, Confluence, Jupyter-NB

WORK EXPERIENCE

Oct 2002 to Present Software Developer – AI / ML, Cloud, Databases Howes-IT-Going: 5yrs, 10yrs, 20yrs St Louis / Ozarks MO, USA, EU PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Software Developer and Technical Lead with over 20 years of expertise in full- stack development, artificial intelligence, machine learning, database and cloud computing. Proven ability to deliver scalable, innovative solutions across diverse industries, including defense, healthcare, and e-commerce. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive organizational success. Developed AI / ML models for unstructured data processing, including convolutional neural networks for clinical trials, biological and pharmaceutical research and development. Designed and deployed full-stack solutions utilizing AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Python, and JavaScript frameworks for multinational clients. Led short-term contracts for many EDI, ETL, and database migrations, ensuring data integrity and optimized performance. Created interactive dashboards and visualizations using Power BI, Tableau, and Python for data-driven decision-making. CORE ACHIEVEMENTS

* Effectively engaged multiple repeat past customers on Short Term Contracting gigs: AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Constant Contact, Cloud, DevOps, E-Commerce, SalesForce, SAPUI5, AI / ML.

* Clinical Trials AI / ML Data. Created robust Convolutional Neural Networks [ConvNets] (CNNs) Nodes, Input & Hidden Layers, Added Biases, Transfer & Activation Functions, Firing Neurons, Output Layers. LatchBio Database Integrations, Documentation, Workflows and Reporting.

* Successfully analyzed, reverse engineered, and implemented classified US DOD GOV MIL systems while maintaining TS/SCI clearance during COVID and deployments to EU & NATO. CORE COMPETENCIES

Programming & Development: Python, Java, .NET (C#, ASP), JavaScript (Angular, JQuery, Knockout, Node, React/Redux, Vue ), Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, SQL/NoSQL Cloud Technologies: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Azure, GCP, IBM, Docker, Kubernetes AI / ML : Deep Learning, Large Language Models, Embedding Vectors, TensorFlow, PyTorch Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres, MySQL DevOps & Automation: CI / CD, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Iron Bank, ODIN, Docker Containers Cyber Security: CEH, CVE, DHS, PCI, Penetration Testing, Secure API Development TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: Python, Java, C#, JavaScript (React, Angular, Vue), HTML5, CSS3, PHP, SQL Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Docker, Kubernetes, SalesForce, SAP S4/HANA Tools: Jenkins, Git, JIRA, Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, Splunk, Terraform, Selenium, SVN CERTIFICATIONS

US DOD GOV MIL: TS/SCI, Secret, NATO, Public Trust, CAC, PKI, US Citizen, Army Veteran Microsoft Certified: Solution Developer MCSD, Professional MCP, Trainer MCTS, MOSS Languages CEFR: English-C2, German-B2, Hungarian-B1, Spanish-B1 EC-Council - Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) White Hat EDUCATION

Aug 2020 to Nov 2022 US DOD GOV MIL: DIA, NGA, NRO, NSA, USAFE, USAEUR TS SCI: ArcGIS, Cognos, Dashboards, Imaging, MARS, MCAT, MIDB, SIGINT Oct 2019 to Aug 2020 Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning ML Field Of Study Spoken Language Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis Machine Learning Activities and Societies: Cryptography (Algorithms, Key Management, Authentication, Hashing), Security Automation, Security Protocols, Cyber-Physical Systems, Communication Protocols and Services (BGP, IPsec, VOIP, IPv6, 802.1x)

Sep 2019 to Oct 2019 Various Client Sponsored Google Trainings Google: App, Compute, Kubernetes - Engines, Cloud: BigQuery, Bigtable, Functions, Datastore, Storage May 2017 to Jun 2017 Various Client Sponsored SAP Trainings SAP S/4HANA 1511, AS ABAP 7.50, SAPX01 SAP User Experience, SAPX03 SAP Fiori Implementation, Administration and Configuration, GW100 SAP Gateway Building OData Services, UX402 SAP Developing UIs with SAPUI5

Dec 1988 B.S. in Computer Science Degree Diploma,UMUC (UMGC) – US Army Germany Dec 1985 A.A. in General Education Degree Diploma,Columbia College – US Army Alabama Steven C. Howes

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Programmer / Analyst, Software Developer: APIs, CDNs, CMS, DevOps, Front-End, UI/UX & Back-End Database / Cloud Applications, Web Services-RESTful-SOAP, AI, ML, Deep Learning Modules, Unstructured Data: Audio, Video, Images, Docs, Logs, Embedding Vectors, Indexing Vector Databases, Large Language Models (LLM), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Similarity Queries. Effective Project Leader, Supervisor, Manager, Principal, Technical Lead Developer in a variety of business service fields. Programming strengths lie in the areas of .NET – ASP, C#, VB, XAML, .NET Framework & IIS, Java – JAR, JSP, C/C++, BaaS, DaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Perl(CGI, DBI), PHP, LAMP / WAMP(Linux / Windows, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python), Python, PL/SQL, SQL, NoSQL, AJAX / Javascript / JS Frameworks: Angular, JQuery, Knockout, Node, React/Redux, Vue, HTML5, CSS3, XML, XSLT, WML, WSDL / REST / SOAP. Expert Search Engine- Marketing (SEM) & Optimization (SEO) Evaluations and Tools development. Certified ‘White Hat’ Ethical Code Hacker - who is Proficient at Programming, Scripting, Automation, Penetration Testing, Security, Quality Control, Valid W3C Standards. CORE COMPETENCIES

APIs: RESTful (Representational State Transfer) URLs, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) XMLs, GraphQL Queries, gRPC BackEnds: ASP.NET Core (C#), Django (Python), Express.js (Node.js), Flask (Python), Koa.js (Node.js), Laravel (PHP), NestJS (TypeScript), Phoenix (Elixir), Ruby on Rails (Ruby), Spring Boot (Java) Databases: Access, Adabas, ADR-Datacom, Aurora, Azure/Cosmos, Borland Database Engine, Condor, CouchDB, Dbase3/4/5/FoxPro, DB2, DynamoDB, Informix 7.2/9.3/10, Ingres, MariaDB, MongoDB, MS-Jet, MySQL, NoSQL Cloud, Oracle 8i-11g-12c-19c, Paradox, Pervasive, Postgres, Progress, Prolog 6/6.5, SQL Server 7-2019, Sybase 11/12, Terdata 13-16 Languages: ActionScript, C/C++/C#, Cold Fusion, Flash, Forte, FoxPro, HTML/KML/WML/XML, Java, Javascript(Frameworks: Angular, JQuery, Knockout, Node, React/Redux, TensorFlow,Vue), I/Julia, Natural, Perl/CGI/DBI, PHP, PL/SQL, Powerscript, Power Shell, I/Python, Silverlight, SQL, UNIX Linux Bash Korn Shell, VB 6.0, .NET, VBA, VBScript, WSDL, XSLT Patterns: Singleton, Factory Design, OperationFactory with a method (getInstance), Builder, Adapter, Decorator, Observer Web Services: Amazon Web Services - AWS: Linux AMI, IAM, S3, EC2, EBS, Cloud Formation Templates, VPC, CIDR block AWS::EC2:: Subnet, Cloud Trail API Calls, Cloud Watch App Monitoring, Auto Scaling EC2 Instances, Route 53 DNS, SNS, SQS, Lamda code run, RDS: Aurora, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB – NoSQL Cloud Database, CouchDB, MongoDB, Redshift Cluster Management.Google: Analytics Premium, Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Colab Notebook/Jupyter nbvw, Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Tag Manager, BigTable and BigQuery SAP Web Services and Cloud Analytics - SAP: S/4HANA Cloud Integration (HCI), SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, Fiori Apps, Hybris, NetWeaver, SAP UI5, jQuery, NWDS & WebDynpro Java, R/3 HANA, OData, PI/XI integration, SAP Application Server, SAP Gateway & ODATA (REST), Mobile Platform, WebAS ABAP Java Stack PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (3+ MONTHS DURATIONS DETAILS)

* HOWES-IT-GOING, St. Louis MO, USA, Canada, EU Present – Nov 2019 Contract Programmer/Analyst, Software Developer: API, Cloud, Database, DevOps, EDI, ETL, Full Stack, AI / ML / RPA

* Short Term Contracting Web: AWS, Constant Contact, Cloud, DevOps, E-Commerce, SalesForce, SAPUI5, AJAX, CGI, DBI, HTML5, CSS3, Java JAR, JSP, .NET ASP, C#, VB, Perl, PHP, Python, RSS, SEO, Unix, W3C, WSDL, XML(01/25 to 06/25)

* Open Ended W2 Contract “Lead Data Visualization, Dashboards, EDI, ETL and RPA Systems Integrations Specialist” for Health Care Third Party Administrators. Created standardized, intuitive, actionable, and impactful UI/UX wire-frames and visualizations that supported data-driven AI/ML and Human based decision-making across various healthcare and finance teams. Managed cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) using plain SQL commands with StackQL.Successfully used Informatica,Talend, SSIS and Epic APIs / web services (REST, SOAP) processing HL7, ICD10, NCPDP, XML, JSON, CSV and X12 EDI Data Formats and Files. Used business intelligence: Power BI, Tableau. Used AI tools: Notion, Codium, Webflow, Builder,Testim, ChatGPT(01/25 to 05/25)

* Software Programmer for LatchBio Database Integrations Documentation Project. Learned File System, Workflow Orchestrator, Elastic Compute Cloud for Biology, Latch Data, Latch Registry, Latch Workflows Nextflow, Latch Pods Services Customization Services, Assays - Bulk RNA-seq ATAC-seq qPCR Flows - Gene Editing Toolkit Providers - NGS Solution Providers, Workflow Manager HaspCRISPR, Elastic Compute Pods: Flexible compute instances with pre-configured analysis notebooks(10/24 to 01/25)

* Lead Web Implementation Developer of VueJS Framework: Edit Vue, Vue CLI (Command Line Interface), Vite Press, Vite Static Site Generator, Vue Router, Vue Apollo GraphQL, Storybook, Vitest Snapshot Testing, Element UI Vue2 Vue3, Nuxt: Framework, DevTools, Labs, StackBlitz, CodeSandbox, single-page applications (SPAs), Single File Components (SFCs): encapsulated HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in single files, vuejs svg-graphs, vuejs grids(07/24 to 10/24)

* Sr. PowerBI, Python, RFM (recency, frequency, monetary values) Client Sales Database API Developer. Created Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse OneLake shortcuts, OneLake locations, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, Amazon S3 storage accounts, Google Cloud Storage(GCS), and Dataverse. Fabric on-premises data gateway (OPDG), Apache Spark delta formats, notebooks, jobs, Kusto Query Language (KQL) databases. Refactored Chat GPT AI Generated Code. (03/24 to 07/24)

* Data Visualization / Data Scientist 'Liason' Software Developer with [NDA] International Marketing Firm having had 15+ years of open-ended, short term on-going contracts. Team Lead Developer responsible to design, develop, enhance, and support/maintain various DEV, QA, TEST, PROD environment dashboards, visualizations, queries and reports using Qlik, Grafana, Power BI, SalesForce, Tableau, R, .NET, Python, Matplotlib, in-house/COTS/open source software packages. Dashboard development of Oracle, SQL Server and Azure databases included builds, automations, security, optimization and Cloud computing algorithm implementations on Windows and Linux Servers. (10/23 to 03/24).

* Sr Data Scientist / Lead Software Developer working with Clinical Trials AI / ML Data. Created robust Convolutional Neural Networks [ConvNets] (CNNs) Nodes, Input & Hidden Layers, Added Biases, Transfer & Activation Functions, Firing Neurons, Output Layers processing Unstructured Data: Videos, Images, Audio, Docs, Logs. Used Deep Learning Models: OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face. Embedding Vectors: Chroma, Drant, LanceDB, Milvus. Large Language Models: OpenAI, LaMDA, StableLM, LLaMA, PaLM. CELL / HANDY : +1-314-***-**** / +49-160-***-**** EMAIL : *****.**.*****@*****.*** HOWES-IT-GOING : ABOUT.ME CARD GOV INDEX LINKEDIN YELP Steven C. Howes

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (3+ MONTHS DURATIONS DETAILS) Algorithms programmed in Python, R, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Plotly MRI Volume Slices. Created Azure and SQL Server databases, Similarity Searches, queries and reports to include Patient Demographics, Facilities and Pharma Trial Results.(10/23 to 02/24).

* Project Lead Data-Centric Java/Angular Developer for national insurance organization. Developed new and maintained various Java Spring applications, REST web services APIs, XML, XSLTs, multi-threaded dashboards, Incident Reports, Maria DB, Mongo DB, Oracle, Excel Embedded Python Graphs, Windows & Linux Servers, Eclipse, Git, Postman, Maven(07/23 to 09/23)

* Sr. EDI HealthCare Architect Lead Developer migration/mapping/coding of HL7 XML X12 to FHIR JSON, XML, RDF, X12 RESTful

/SOAP Web services. Reverse engineered legacy ASP.net, Core, C#, Razor, IIS, SQL Server created Python, Pandas, MEAN

( MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS ) and FHIR Console (Fast Health Interoperability Resources). Fully Remote, Full Stack DevOps, SDLC Agile, Kanban Boards, Stand-ups, Sprints, Backlogs, Retros, Demos, Functional and Technical Documentation and Trainings. (02/23 to 06/23)

~ EU Travel - Visited: Germany, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Romania and Hungary. (11/22 to 01/23)

* D.O.D. S.O.F.A. Contract Sr. Software Engineer, Project Manager, Lead Developer for USAFE, USAEUR, NATO, EUCOM Special Missions Joint Forces Support. Developed Python, Jupyter Notebooks and Linux/Unix scripts, Cron Jobs, Windows DOS .BAT &

.CMD files, VBA, Macros and VBScripts, Cognos/Lucene and ArcGIS Data Dashboards, Visualizations, Data Stashes, Ingests, URLs parsers, processing various DOD GOV MIL systems databases and data scrapes. AWS Commercial & DOD Web Services, Docker Containers, SB3 Buckets with Java, Python, HTML/CSS/React, MongoDB and PostGreSQL, IronBank Hardened Sites, GitLab CI/CD Admin, ODIN and Platform One with CAC Auth and PKI Keys. Maintained TS SCI Clearance while working on Commercial, NIPR, SIPR, JWICS networks. Stationed in Germany living on Local Economy in the Rheinland near Landstuhl. (05/22 to 11/22)

* Short Term Contracting Web: AWS, Constant Contact, Cloud, DevOps, E-Commerce, SalesForce, SAPUI5, AJAX, CGI, DBI, HTML5, CSS3, Java(JAR,JSP), .NET(ASP,C#,VB), Perl, PHP, Python, RSS, SEO, Unix, W3C, WSDL, XML.(10/21 to 05/22)

~ Post Covid19 EU Travel - Visited: Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary. (09/21 to 10/21)

* D.O.D.Contract Sr. Software Engineer Team Member tasked to modernize and integrate multiple Military, Maritime, Civilian Airfield and Geo-Spatial Databases. SF86 EQIP Clearance Application Investigation. SF312-13 Interim Clearance and CAC card while working in Unclassified/SBU environments. Granted JPAS CAF TS SCI. Worked 100% remotely from home. Attended multiple daily/weekly video/conference calls, chats, team meetings and trainings via: WebEx, Zoom, Google Meet, Hangouts, Slack and Rocketchat. Downloaded and Installed onto U.S. Gov MacBook Pro Laptop: Mac OS: High Sierra/Mojave/Catalina, Java, PostGres, PgAdmin, PCF, Jenkins, Visual Studio Code, Docker, Gradle, Swagger, JHipster, NodeJS/NPM, Home Brew, Postman, Jest, ReactJS, Yarn, Yeoman. Reversed engineered multiple .zip file XML SOAP data files, XAML report text files and Sybase/PB, MySQL, Postgres database dump SQL files. Created detailed derived PostGres SQL tables definitions and reports to be used in mapping XML data to JSON translations and JHipster Entity creation initially to match XML data examples then subsequent disparate database systems. Used Gitlab https and ssh key gen source code control for project API and UI Templates java, js, json, web services/micro services, python and sql code pieces. Used Jira and Agile Scrum bi-weekly Sprints and daily Standups to track Story Board Tasks, Blockers, Demos and Work. (08/20 to 08/21)

* Full Stack Developer for international staffing firm using SAP ERP CRM modules. Created new consolidated data warehouses, reports, graphs, images combining multiple Oracle(11g,12c-19c), SQL Server(2016,2019) and MySQL(8) databases using NodeJS, TensorFlow.JS(tfjs-vis, tfjs-react-native, TensorLite) data arrays, Tableau GeoJSON, Keyhole XML, Lat/Long, Google Earth derived mapping. Used IPython, C++, Java, PHP and JS to create AI / ML Data Models. Jupyter Notebooks / Google Colab, NBViewer, Lab to render, shared front end and backend automations, forecasting, logs, docs, Github (04/20 to 08/20)

* Contract E-Commerce Software Developer for Whiskey Distiller’s New Patent Applied For Industrial Alcohol Covid19 Hand Sanitizer and Surface Disinfectant Products. Upgraded Magento 1.9 to 2.3: extensions, themes and MySQL/SQL Server DBs, PHP programs with NodeJS, ReactJS Native, REST/JSON and SOAP/XML API calls to PayPal/Venmo API (03/20 to 06/20) EDUCATION

D.O.D. GOV MIL US Agencies: DIA, NGA, NRO, NSA, USAFE, USAEUR 2020 August – 2022 November TS SCI: ArcGIS, Cognos, Dagger, Dashboards, DevOps, Imaging, Iron Bank, MARS, MCAT, MIDB, ODIN, SIGINT Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2019 October – 2020 August Field Of Study Spoken Language Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis Machine Learning Activities and Societies: Cryptography (Algorithms, Key Management, Authentication, Hashing), Security Automation, Security Protocols, Cyber- Physical Systems, Communication Protocols and Services (BGP, IPsec, VOIP, IPv6, 802.1x) Client Sponsored Google Trainings 2019 September to October Google: App, Compute, Kubernetes - Engines, Cloud: BigQuery, Bigtable, Functions, Datastore, Storage Client Sponsored Corporate SAP Trainings 2017 May to June SAP S/4HANA 1511, AS ABAP 7.50, SAPX01 SAP User Experience, SAPX03 SAP Fiori Implementation, Administration and Configuration,GW100 SAP Gateway Building OData Services, UX402 SAP Developing UIs with SAPUI5 B.S. Computer Science / Mathematics - Dec 1988(3.5 G.P.A.) Diploma Degree University of Maryland / U.S. Army - Tompkins Kaserne - Schwetzingen, Germany A.A. General Education - Dec 1985(3.75 G.P.A.) Diploma Degree Columbia College / U.S. Army - Redstone Arsenal, AL CERTIFICATIONS

INACTIVE DOD TS SCI Clearance – Last Used in EU / Germany / NATO - 05/2022 to 11/2022 Languages CEFR – English C2, German B2, Hungarian B1, Spanish B1 Microsoft Certified: Solution Developer - MCSD VB 6.0 & .NET, Professional, Plus Internet - MCP/+ Internet Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MOSS2007) - EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker CEH 312-50 CELL / HANDY : +1-314-***-**** / +49-160-***-**** EMAIL : *****.**.*****@*****.*** HOWES-IT-GOING : ABOUT.ME CARD GOV INDEX LINKEDIN YELP

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